Posts Tagged “reading”
On April 1st, I interviewed David Ulin, book critic for the LA Times. It’s June now, and the reason I haven’t posted the interview is twofold . One, I wanted to spend some time digesting the ideas in The Lost (…)
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The Silent Land, Graham Joyce (my review, in which I compare it to the Fear Street series, is here) Fear Street No. 32, College Weekend, R.L. Stine (that’s right) All the Time in the World, E.L. Doctorow (Bookslut review here) The (…)
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At my sharpest, I think I’m a fairly astute reader. To this I attribute two things. The first has to do with the fact that while I’m reading, it’s impossible for me to do anything else. Reading may in fact (…)
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The first adult novel I read was Flowers for Algernon. My brother had read it in school and told me I should read it too, so I went and found it at the public library. I remember feeling that this (…)
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AH! The Morning News unveiled this year’s contenders for the Tournament of Books, a yearly competition that mimics and coincides with NCAA March Madness. The competitors are stellar! Donoghue! Franzen! Bender! Carson! Gordon! Holy crap! The judges are the best (…)
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Facts: 1. Almost no one in attendance had read the novel, aside from myself, one other woman, and the employees of Book Soup. (There were about twenty people there.) 2. Some people didn’t even know what kind of meeting they (…)
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To Laura Miller’s suggestion that I become a better reader by committing to a reading challenge, I signed up for Roof Beam Reader’s 2011 TBR Pile Challenge. The goal is to read twelve books from your ‘To Be Read’ pile (…)
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Lord of Misrule, Jaimy Gordon As I mentioned, I’m going to attempt a super slow, close read of the National Book Award winner, mostly because I want to love Jaimy Gordon as much as Silverblatt does. I want to love her (…)
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In that great New Yearsy tradition of painstakingly reevaluating one’s time and self-management, I have an addendum to yesterday’s post about expression and intent. While searching for interesting responses to the New York Times Review of Books’ feature, Why Criticism Matters, (…)
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In attempting to wrest from my consciousness a clear vision for this blog, I keep coming back to the problem of Criticism. Namely, should I Review or review the books I read? Can I Review and still drop the F-bomb? (…)
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